George Saunders has delivered a first novel so profound, "it seems like an act of grace," said Alex Preston at the Financial Times. A "strange and brilliant" mix of American history, Buddhist-inspired spirituality, and allegorical surrealism, it grows out of a tale from history: that Abraham Lincoln was so stricken by the death of his 11-year-old son that he visited the boy's corpse in a Washington cemetery for one last...